The Balls Eight is a NASA NB-52B Mothership, NASA tail number 52-008. It was retired from active service with NASA on 17 December 2004 after almost 50 years flying service. The Balls 8 was famous for dropping aerospace research vehicles for 106 flights of the X-15. It flew a total of 159 captive-carry and launch missions in support of the X-15 program from June 1959 to October 1968. It also fle...

This is the area of the UK where I originally hail from, and we all want the places we know to be in very high-res. Unfortunately this is one of the areas of Google Earth with particularly low-res imagery.

This overlay still isn't at a particularly high resolution, but it is an improvement over the default imagery. The photo has been taken from theEarth Sciences and Image Analysi...

Porto Alegre is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southmost state of Brazil.
This overlay (1500 x 1439 pixels) covers from Av. Ipiranga in the south to Av Maua in the north and from Guaiba Lake in the west to Av Ramiro Barcelos in the east.